Question about splitting stereo to mono

[JayB]

Hey , just wondering about this situation. I have some vocal tracks (panned dead center) that I accidentally bounced as stereo wavs , but I want them as mono. If I split them all into two mono tracks each and delete one of the tracks , would that degrade the audio quality at all? Just curious because that would save some time , as I seem to make this mistake pretty often

 

[BLUElightCory]

Even if you exported them as stereo tracks, they are still in mono (i.e. the signal is equally represented on both sides, same as a mono signal).

You can re-split them and delete one without any degradation.

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

If you did the bounce, why cant you just go back and bounce them in mono?

 

[JayB]

Even if you exported them as stereo tracks, they are still in mono (i.e. the signal is equally represented on both sides, same as a mono signal).

You can re-split them and delete one without any degradation.

Cool , thanks man

 

[JayB]

If you did the bounce, why cant you just go back and bounce them in mono?

I can do that , but like I said it would take way longer than just splitting them to mono and deleting one side of the stereo wav

 

[RedDog]

I can do that , but like I said it would take way longer than just splitting them to mono and deleting one side of the stereo wav

A few DAWs have an option to sum the stereo signal to mono. Don't you use reaper?

EDIT: NVM, read the signature.

 

[JayB]

Yep , Pro Tools , and I'm pretty sure they don't have that option but I could be wrong